Games released or invented in the 19th century

• The Mansion of Happiness
  The Mansion of Happiness
  The Mansion of Happiness: An Instructive Moral and Entertaining Amusement is a children's board game inspired by Christian morality. Players race about a sixty-six space spiral track depicting virtues and vices with their goal being The Mansion of Happiness at track's end...
  
   (1843) ~ the first commercially-produced game in the USA
• The Game of Authors
  Authors (card game)
  Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first Game of Authors was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A...
  
   (1861)
• Snakes and ladders
  Snakes and ladders
  Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played between two or more players on a game board having numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares...
  
   (1870)
• Game of the District Messenger Boy, or Merit Rewarded (1886)
• Messenger Boy (1886)
• Game of the Telegraph Boy (1888)
• Chinese Checkers
  Chinese checkers
  Chinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners...
  
   (c. 1893) ~ derived from Halma
• Ludo
  Ludo (board game)
  Ludo is a simple board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls. Like other cross and circle games, it is similar to the Indian Pachisi, but simpler...
  
   (1896)
• Reversi
  Reversi
  Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...
  
   (1898)

Significant games-related events in the 19th century

• The Milton Bradley Company
  Milton Bradley Company
  The Milton Bradley Company is an American game company established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States, and in 1987, it purchased Selchow and Righter,...
  
   is founded in Springfield, Massachusetts
  Springfield, Massachusetts
  Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...
  
   (1860).
• E.G. Selchow & Co. founded (1867), later changing its name to Selchow and Righter
  Selchow and Righter
  Selchow and Righter was a 19th century Bay Shore, New York game manufacturer best known for the games Parcheesi and Scrabble.It dates back to 1867when it was founded as E.G. Selchow & Co...
  
   (1880).
• Parker Brothers
  Parker Brothers
  Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. Since 1883, the company has published more than 1,800 games; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo , Sorry, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija, Aggravation, and Probe...
  
  founded by George S. Parker (1883).